White Nights

White Nights is a lyrical short story by Fiódor Dostoyevski, set in St. Petersburg and narrated by a lonely, unnamed dreamer. The protagonist lives an isolated life, wandering the city and imagining romantic fantasies to escape his solitude. Everything changes during a summer "white night," when he meets Nastenka, a young woman crying by a canal. The dreamer comforts her, and they form a fragile b...